![]() ![]() “My goal was to have the Military Language Instructors, who help our faculty leadership run the schools, aid in guiding with simple planning techniques to reach a desired end-state,” said Deppert. Phil Deppert, directed all faculty, staff, students and military cadre in the Undergraduate Education Schools to work closely together to reach the 2+/2+/2 proficiency goals. “It is important to understand that the new DOD Instruction 5160.70 states that the CLA requirement is 3/3,” emphasized Collins. In May 2016, to meet the NSA standard, the Department of Defense Senior Language Authority directed DLIFLC to change its basic course graduation standard to 2+ in both listening and reading by September 30, 2022. “Essentially, we have been working toward this goal for years, but now we have direct support at the highest decision-maker levels,” explained Collins. To reach these new standards, DLIFLC decreased the teacher-student ratio, introduced innovative technology in the classroom, improved curriculum, trained instructors to teach at higher levels, and increased its presence worldwide through Language Training Detachments, Mobile Training Teams, and online learning products. “As staff directly involved in the training of CLAs, we took this memo very seriously and started planning accordingly, said Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Chief of Staff, Steven Collins. These adjustments will not be easy, but they are absolutely essential,” he stated. He acknowledged this meant “adjustments in training, assignments and numbers of billets. Michael Hayden, issued a memo establishing the Interagency Roundtable Level standard for Cryptologic Language Analysts to perform assignments to a 3/3 Level. Seven months later, in April 2002, then National Security Agency director, Lt. ![]() – After 9/11, one thing became abundantly clear to the intelligence community – there is a dire need for more and better qualified linguists. “I wanted to bring this message here because I believe it was a story they could understand, that this (Thor) wasn’t just another sad person that we lost, but a DLI student, just like themselves,” Miltersen said.įrench instructor Suzie Suriam works with students in the classroom, at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Nov. “I think it was a fitting message for DLI students, anyone, who can be exposed to those ideations,” Ham said.Īmong the groups Miltersen has addressed on the issue are the Air Force War College faculty and students, the Georgia State Legislature and three times this year at the Presidio of Monterey to service members and employees. Suicide impacts all of us in some way to some of us it is incredibly personal.”ĭLIFLC Chaplain (Maj.) Chan Ham was impressed by how personal and relatable Miltersen’s story was for the audience. ![]() “Unfortunately the statistics tell a horribly different story. “I think this generation of students are more in touch with their vulnerabilities than previous generations,” he said, “however, there is a general idea that we are all impervious to this kind of tragedy. 14, Miltersen brought his suicide prevention presentation to DLIFLC, addressing a few hundred students and faculty. “They mourn the loss and are impacted with sadness and grief that is hard to understand, in turn, those individuals then find themselves in a higher risk category.” “The loss of one individual to suicide impacts many, up to more than a hundred family, friends and colleagues of that person,” he said. Rob’s tragedy focused him to a mission of shouting from the rooftops about suicide prevention. Rob was also an Air Force DLIFLC grad, in 1990, at the start of his 20-year career. He was a 2012 Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate in Chinese Mandarin. Thor Miltersen took his own life in 2014 while assigned to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland. ![]() – The saddest task for a parent, it is said, is burying one of their children.īut sadder still, Rob Miltersen found out, is burying your 21-year old Airman First Class son after his suicide. (Photo by Brian Lepley, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs) He and his son both graduated from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Rob Miltersen shares the story of his son Thor’s suicide with Presidio of Monterey military and civilians at the Physical Fitness Center Sept. ![]()
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